Kuopio Smart Society, 3.10.2017 Arto Holopainen, Senior Digital Advisor, City of Kuopio Tiina Arpola, RDI Adviser, Savonia University of Applied Sciences

2. KUOPIO
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3. 118.000
165.000
inhabitants
in the commuting
area
1H/
2H /DISTANCE OF
160KM
DISTANCE OF
90KM
“KUOPIO IS A CENTRE OF
HEALTH, WELL-BEING AND
SECURITY COMPETENCE

4. Kuopio – The Most Northern
WHO Healthy City
Picture: Kuopion kaupunki
“Healthy City is conscious of health and striving to improve it

5. KUOPIO’S TOP
PROJECTS 2015-2020

6. BILLION
New business opportunities and
services, wellbeing and quality of life.
residents jobs students
11.500 15.500 15.600
EUROS

7. PROJECTS
2015-2020
KUNTOLAAKSO-
HATSALA
• € 400 million
• 2.000 residents
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
TAHKO RESORT AREA
FINNPULP BIO
PRODUCT MILL
• € 1.4 billion
• •1.500 jobs
MAP: Bing
SAVILAHTI–
DISTRICT OF THE
FUTURE
• € 1,5 billion
• 13.000 jobs
• 15.000 students
• 6.000 residents
SAIRAALAKATU
• €120 million
• 800 residents
MÖLYMÄKI
• €500 million
• 2.000 residents
KUOPIO BAY –
ARCHITECTURAL
GEM & ARTS
CAMPUS
• €130 million
• 600 students
• 100-200
residents
STATION AREA –
GATEWAT TO KUOPIO
• €210 million
• 400-500 residents
• 600-1.000 jobs

8. SAVILAHTI 2020
1.5 billion euro
project during the
2020s
jobs students residents
13.000 15.000 6.000
people
34.000
Picture: ArkkitehtitoimistoAjak

9. Smart Lightning
Competition

10. Smart Lightning
Competition

11. Smart Lightning
Competition

12. Smart Lightning
Competition

13. to engage people to
smarter mobility
to encourage
residents and
companies to create
and implement
services

14. Meaningful use of open data
– Artificial Intelligence?

16. KUOPIO HEALTH
OPEN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM
We are open innovation platform enabling co-creation and
transfer of knowledge and technologies for the benefit of
society and people

17. We offer
Excellent health technology competence,
training, infra and business network for
domestic and international health tehnology
companies and innovators.
The strong international R&D and business
areas in the life science sector of Kuopio
region are:
• Health technologies
• Diagnostics
• Pharmaceutical development
• Bioinformatics
• Care effectiveness
• Wellbeing services
• Clinical nutrition
With emerging ground breaking disruptive
technologies.

18. The City of Kuopio and Kuopio University Hospital have started
Living Lab services, which companies developing future healthcare
solutions can use to test and improve their products and services
in an authentic healthcare environment.
FACADE ARTWORK ”EVOLUTION”
PARTANEN & LAMUSUO LTD

19. KUOPIO SCIENCE PARK
is active research community with
a focal point of
• Innovative education
• International, creative research
• Expertise projects managed by
the different organisations
located in the area

20. • Expertise in gamification, data science, big data,
statistics, visualization, cloud services
• Application fields: Health, well-being, biomedicine,
genetics, nutrition, quantified-self

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22. Human Security Finland is an international development
and crisis management business network. The network
combines business, education and research for human
security. Savonia organising Human Security Europe
networking event in January 2018 in Brussels.

23. The Emergency Services College
Unique 38-hectar-wide training
ground for practical training

24. Stockholm
Sweden
Helsinki
Finland
The 23rd Finnish National Conference on Telemedicine and eHealth
The 23rd ISfTeH International Conference on Telemedicine and eHealth
#eHealth2018 - Health communities facing cyber transformation
15.-17.3.2018
Cruise on the Baltic Sea between the capital cities Helsinki, Finland and Stockholm, Sweden
www.tinyurl.com/eHealth2018 | www.telemedicine.fi

25. 12th April 2018
Ski Resort Tahko, Kuopio, Finland
150-200 attendees
Registration fee : 100 €
”Business-oriented”
New technologies
New applications
New business opportunities
TAHKO SKI LIFT PITCH
HEALTH’18 SEMINAR

26. Thank you!
Arto Holopainen
Senior Digital Advisor
City of Kuopio
arto.holopainen (at) kuopio.fi
Tiina Arpola
RDI Advisor
Savonia University of Applied Sciences
tiina.arpola (at) savonia.fi